Inequality

Michele Alacevich is associate professor of economic history at the University of Bologna. He is a former director of global studies at Loyola University Maryland and a research fellow at Harvard University, Columbia University, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), and the World Bank.Anna Soci is professor of economics at the University of Bologna. The author of scholarly articles, books, and textbooks in macroeconomics and international economics, she is a life-member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, and was recently research fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on economics and politics.

Great, readable, and intellectually rich short history of inequality by Michele Alacevich and Anna Soci.—Branko Milanovic, author of The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality “To sum up, I would like to emphasize that it is exciting and appealing to read and study this small book. It is a smart and readable introduction to the issue of inequality from an economic and historic perspective and a good starting point for further in-depth analyses of the consequences of inequality as well as its policy implications.”—Wilfried Altzinger, associate professor of economics and deputy head of the Institute of Macroeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWhy Inequality Is the Real IssueThe Long Neglect of InequalityThe Statistical Drift of Inequality StudiesInequality and GlobalizationInequality and Democracy: An Open IssueThe Future of InequalityAppendix: Measures of InequalityNotesIndex